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  • At 3,112 m altitude, endangered musk deer clicked in Bengal for first time

    Kolkata: In a first, Bengal has recorded the photographic evidence of the endangered musk deer. It has been clicked in Neora Valley National Park during a pan-India assessment of red pandas. It was believed that the species had gone ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Man dies of heart attack, kin blame ‘stress’ over SIR

    Midnapore: Forty-year-old Bablu Hembram, a resident of West Midnapore's Pingla, died on Sunday morning following a cardiac arrest. His family alleged he had been under severe stress after learning that his parents were not in the 2002 SIR list ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Never said BJP doesn’t want Muslim votes: Suvendu

    Kolkata: BJP senior and Bengal assembly's leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari said on Monday that he had never said BJP doesn't want Muslim votes, but Muslims don't vote for BJP in Bengal."I never said BJP doesn't want Muslim votes ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    950 wheeled waste bins for New Town

    The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) will introduce 950 wheeled waste bins of 240-litre capacity each at different locations in New Town. It will engage an agency to lift all kinds of waste and transport it to Dhapa. ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    HC sets aside Pocso verdict over ‘contradictions’

    Kolkata: Calcutta High Court on Monday set aside a Bankura trial court order sentencing an accused to three years of imprisonment under the Pocso Act. Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, in his order, acquitted the accused of all charges."I am of ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Boeing, going, gone: 100ft B737-200 aircraft, lying forgotten at Kolkata airport for 13 years, sets out on 1,900km journey

    Kolkata: On Nov 14, a Boeing 737-200 aircraft that was lying idle at Kolkata airport for over 13 years finally rolled out and headed to Bengaluru on a tractor trailer, where it will be used for the training of ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    N Bengal in focus at cabinet meet, Mahakal temple gets nod

    Kolkata: From the Mahakal Mandir in Siliguri to a convention centre in Dabgram, the Bengal cabinet on Monday approved multiple projects for north Bengal.The cabinet, chaired by CM Mamata Banerjee, approved the establishment of a Mahakal temple and a ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    ISI faculty, students raise protest pitch on draft bill

    Kolkata: Faculty members, staff and students of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, on Monday raised the pitch against the draft ISI bill, claiming that the proposal was a meticulously designed move to snatch the institute's autonomy.Disquiet has been brewing over ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC asks agency to plant 25 big trees to re-green Theatre Rd park

    Kolkata: Officials of Kolkata Municipal Corporation parks department have asked the agency that hacked trees at McPherson Square to plant 20-25 big trees, and many more smaller ones, to restore the green cover at the park at the Theatre ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC targets dust, to get 40 e-sweepers by 2026

    Kolkata: In a bid to fight air pollution in the city's lanes and bylanes, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is set to buy small-sized electric mechanical sweepers. According to a KMC solid waste management department official, initially, 20 such ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    Teachers on SIR job: Some schools bring forward, some delay exams

    Kolkata: Battling an acute teacher shortage with most teachers engaged in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) job, schools are either advancing their examination schedule or deferring it to manage crisis of examination invigilators. Several schools started final exams on Monday ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    At 3,112 m altitude, cameras click Bengal’s 1st endangered musk deer

    Kolkata: In a first, Bengal has recorded the photographic evidence of the endangered musk deer. It has been clicked in Neora Valley National Park during a pan-India assessment of red pandas. It was believed that the species had gone ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    59.4% forms uploaded, only 2.4% mismatch so far with 2002 list: EC

    Kolkata: Around 59.4% of enumeration forms have been digitised in the state by late Monday afternoon. Of them, only 2.4% of data could not be mapped with the SIR 2002 roll in Bengal, Manoj Agarwal, chief electoral officer, West ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    3 schoolkids die as pool car falls into Howrah pond

    Howrah: Three schoolchildren died when a car ferrying them lost control and fell into a pond at Bahira in Howrah's Uluberia on Monday afternoon. Two other children travelling in the same car were injured and are admitted in hospital. ...

    25 November 2025 Times of India
    West Bengal weather: IMD predicts fall in minimum temperatures; dry weather to continue

    KOLKATA: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday forecast that minimum temperatures will fall by around two degrees Celsius across West Bengal over the next two days.After this brief cold spell, temperatures are expected to rise gradually by about ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Hotels must upload guest list daily: KP

    Kolkata: In the wake of the Kasba hotel murder involving a chartered accountant, Kolkata Police commissioner Manoj Varma held a high-level meeting with the detective department and senior officers on Sunday. They finalised a series of guidelines aimed at ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Baranagar shooting: Wife hires killers, held

    Kolkata: Rekha Majumdar, wife of a WBTC employee, Bikash Majumdar (52), who was was shot at by bike-borne assailants early on Friday, was arrested on Sunday. Three others were also picked up.Investigators revealed that Rekha had hired contract killers ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Man loses 65L in dating app scam

    Kolkata: A 56-year-old man from Baguiati alleged he was duped of nearly Rs 65 lakh by a woman he met on a dating app, who persuaded him to invest in a fraudulent online trading scheme. Police said the two ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    No court nod needed for sanction of ‘debuttar’ property bldg plan: HC

    Kolkata: Shebaits (manager and custodian of a temple) did not require permission from a civil court to develop or alter a private debuttar property, dedicated to a deity, the Calcutta High Court held while directing the KMC to reconsider ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    After Nadia BLO’s suicide, colleagues to take to streets

    Kolkata: A section of booth level officers (BLOs) will take to the streets on Monday to raise their voice against what they described as crushing workload because of the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    WBTC buries tram heritage loop tracks under concrete

    Kolkata: The hope of a tram ride on a heritage route in the city may be slipping into oblivion with the transport department starting to build concrete bus shelters directly on the tracks at Curzon Park, an alignment the ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Nadia BLO pleaded to be relieved several times before suicide: Kin

    Krishnanagar: Fifty-two-year-old Chaprapara teacher Rinku Tarafdar, who died by suicide on Friday, pleaded multiple times, twice formally, to be relieved from the work of a booth level officer (BLO) because she "did not understand anything online". According to her ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    At 105%, N Dinajpur records highest voter surge, followed by Malda & Murshidabad

    Kolkata: North Dinajpur, spread across 3,180 sqkm and flanked by Bangladesh and Bihar, has witnessed a staggering 105.4% growth in voters in the last 23 years, the highest in Bengal.Malda and Murshidabad, among the other Bengal districts bordering Bangladesh, ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Not just 186-yr-old Ezra St agiary, other places of worship also in encroachers’ chokehold

    Kolkata: The Nov 15 inferno on Ezra Street did more than destroy property and a 186-year-old agiary — it laid bare a chronic civic problem — encroachments around the city's places of worship and heritage structures that create serious ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Cops arrest woman, male friend for CA’s murder in Kasba hotel

    Kolkata: A woman and a man, who had checked into a Kasba hotel with chartered accountant Adarsh Losalka (33), who was later found dead in the hotel room on Saturday, were arrested in less than 24 hours, on Sunday. ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Woman injured as she fights off snatchers on Dhauli Exp

    Kolaghat: A Kolkata resident, Surama Hazra (45), who was travelling on Dhauli Express with her husband on Sunday morning, was severely injured as she fought off two men attempting to snatch her gold chain and bag. The snatchers tried ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Session focuses on religion, gender issues

    Kolkata: A masterclass was conducted by Nandini Bhowmik, Indologist, priestess and Sanskrit scholar, at Modern High School for social science students. The session covered issues like religion, gender issues and career-building for young women. Bhowmik explained the true meaning ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Cinematographer kills self over debt

    Kolkata: A 42-year-old cinematographer, Soumyadeepta Guin, was found hanging in his Kasba flat on Saturday night, with a handwritten note pointing to prolonged financial distress and lack of steady work, police said. Officers broke down the door of his ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Doc helps woman give birth on toto in Malda

    Malda: The usually bustling K J Sanyal Road in English Bazar went unusually quiet for some time on Sunday after an e-rickshaw (toto) covered in clothes stopped in the middle of the road. A doctor was seen rushing to ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Subhas Sarobar set to turn a new leaf with promenade, Miyawaki forest, seating upgrade

    Kolkata: Subhas Sarobar, considered to be the lungs of north and east Kolkata, is set to get a new look. A promenade has been planned in the southern and western parts on its premises. Work will be done to ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Airport to get air curtains to fend off mosquitoes

    Kolkata: Airport authorities are upgrading air curtains at Kolkata airport as part of an intensified vector-control drive after repeated passenger complaints about mosquito infestation in the terminal. The airport initiated a large-scale overhaul of its insect-prevention infrastructure, including installation ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Stray parents try their hand at raising funds to feed, treat dogs

    Kolkata: Pet parents across the city are raising funds in different ways, be it through artwork, running pet grooming centres, or selling pet food, to support the welfare of community strays, mostly dogs and cats. In addition to spending ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Theatre Rd park fiasco reveals all that’s wrong with urban planning

    Kolkata: The McPherson Square park fiasco is emblematic of everything that is wrong with "public projects" in the country, say residents of Loudon Street and Theatre Road who have always taken the park and its greenery for granted till ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    4 years after B’desh ban, Bengal prohibits Chinese fishing net that’s been destroying state’s wetland fauna

    Kolkata: A China-made fishing net, which has been prohibited in Bangladesh for at least four years now, but still employed extensively across Bengal, has recently been banned by the state.TOI had last year reported how China Duari nets have ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Weekend camps help BLOs race against time

    Kolkata: From community halls and local playgrounds to even bus shelters, SIR ‘camps' sprouted all over Kolkata on Sunday as BLOs sprinted for the last mile to complete digitisation of the SIR enumeration forms by the Nov 25 deadline. ...

    24 November 2025 Times of India
    Phone hacked, Salt Lake resident loses 1.7 crore

    Kolkata: A resident of HA Block in Salt Lake lost Rs 1.7 crore to a financial fraud. The incident came to light when the victim noticed unauthorised transactions from her credit cards, and she promptly lodged a complaint with ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Tiger kills another fisherman in Sundarbans

    Kolkata: Fisherman Tapas Haldar (45) was dragged from his boat by a tiger while catching crabs near Sindurkathi forest in the Sundarbans on Friday. His mutilated body was recovered half a kilometre inside the mangroves on Saturday. This is ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Suicide hits metro ops, second time in 3 days

    Kolkata: Another suicide disrupted Blue Line metro services for the second time in three days. Services in the Dakshineswar-Shahid Khudiram corridor were disrupted for around 40 minutes on Saturday because of a suicide at MG Road station. Truncated operations ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Error fear grips BLOs as edit tab vanishes from app

    Kolkata: The edit option that was introduced in the BLO app on Nov 19 — and had been malfunctioning from the next day itself — was reportedly removed altogether on Saturday morning. Booth level officers (BLOs) across the city ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Nadia BLO dies by suicide, note blames EC for death

    Krishnanagar: A 51-year-old from Nadia became the second booth level officer (BLO) to die by suicide in Bengal in three days swinging the glare on the immense pressure on these govt employees engaged by the Election Commission for the ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Mangroves in danger: Plastic dust drifting in air deep inside Sundarbans, find IISER scientists

    Kolkata: The Sundarbans, long seen as one of the planet's last wild fortresses, is now revealing a quieter, more unsettling intrusion — plastic dust drifting through its air. A new study by the Indian Institute of Science Education and ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Fans mark first city bus run’s 195th anniv with cake, balloons & nostalgia

    Kolkata: Around 80 people arrived at the Garia Route 6 govt bus stand around noon on Saturday and immediately got busy. For the next few hours, they set up balloons and streamers around a 2.5kg cake that was placed ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Safer EMB: IIT audit finds 18 hazardous stretches

    Kolkata: IIT Kharagpur submitted its first report to the state govt and Kolkata Police this month. A copy will be sent to Kolkata Municipal Corporation and the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority on how to turn the all-important but accident-prone ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    IT firm staffer found dead in Kasba hotel, hunt on for mystery couple

    Kolkata/Suri: The naked body of a 33-year-old Sector V IT firm employee, Adarsh Losalka, was found in a fourth-floor hotel room in Kasba, near a popular mall and a reputable English-medium school on Saturday afternoon.Losalka, who used to reside ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    EC should stop working as B-team of BJP: TMC

    Kolkata: Trinamool Congress on Saturday called upon the Election Commission (EC) to stop working as "BJP's B team" and not turn the special intensive revision (SIR) of voter rolls into a mass disenfranchisement exercise. The comments came after a ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation area dengue tally breaches last year’s count

    Kolkata: The dengue case count in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) area has crossed last year's figures. With 30 fresh cases reported last week, a total of 392 dengue cases have now been reported across BMC area this year. ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    CS asks DMs to reduce stress on BLOs, ensure smooth SIR

    Kolkata: Bengal chief secretary Manoj Pant, during a meeting with district magistrates on Saturday, asked them to try and remove the phobia related to the special intensive revision (SIR) in the wake of several BLO suicides over the last ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Exotic bird undergoes emergency op after swallowing plastic tube

    Kolkata: A month-old exotic bird, Sun Conure, got a new lease of life following an emergency surgery to remove a plastic tube that it swallowed while being fed. The surgery was conducted on Friday night. "This was a rare, ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    33-yr-old CA’s body found in Kasba hotel, hunt on for mystery couple

    Kolkata/Suri: The naked body of a 33-year-old chartered accountant—employed at an Sector V IT firm—Adarsh Losalka, was found in a fourth-floor hotel room in Kasba, behind a popular mall, on Saturday afternoon. Losalka, who used to reside at a ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Bengal SIR may lead to ‘mass exclusion’: Activists

    Kolkata: The Educationists' Forum, West Bengal, and Desh Bachao Gano Mancha on Saturday hosted a discussion titled "SIR: A Challenge for Universal Adult Franchise", featuring social scientist and political activist Yogendra Yadav, political economist Parakala Prabhakar and academic Om ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Blue heritage plaque for hotel with a room for the Kapoors

    Kolkata: The Elgin Fairlawn Hotel on Sudder Street has received the blue heritage plaque from the Kolkata chapter of the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) as part of World Heritage Week 2025.The hotel was once ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Green curtain comes up after green murder at Theatre Rd park

    Kolkata: Even as the KMC parks department officials claimed that they asked the agency responsible for cutting down trees and pouring concrete in the park to cease work, construction activity gathered pace at McPherson Square on Saturday. A payloader ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Kol Metro seeks DMRC advice on operational issues

    Kolkata: Metro Railway is exchanging notes with DMRC for seamless operations of the Green Line (East-West) Metro, the carrier has said, clarifying that there is no possibility of handing over Green Line operations to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC).Metro ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Vancouver-Delhi flight lands in Kolkata after man falls ill mid-air

    Kolkata: A Delhi-bound Air India flight from Vancouver, Canada made an emergency landing at Kolkata airport on Friday after a passenger experienced chest pain and restlessness mid-air. The flyer, 70-year-old Dalbir Singh, subsequently died while being rushed to a ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata: Tout racket at Med College Hosp & SSKM busted, 2 held

    Kolkata: The detective department of Kolkata Police busted an organised gang of touts operating within two of the city's major govt medical institutions. Cops on Friday night arrested two individuals—Sachin Raut and Golam Rasul—for allegedly extorting money from patients' ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Student files assault complaint with JU

    Kolkata: The second-year English department student, Indranuj Ray, who was physically assaulted by four fourth-year engineering students on Tuesday, lodged a complaint with the Jadavpur University authorities on Friday. He stated that one of the chemical engineering students "bit ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    Contractual staffers can’t work as data entry operators: EC

    Kolkata: The EC has instructed all DMs, who are also the district election officers, not to use contractual workers to upload data in the ongoing SIR exercise in Bengal. If done, the BDOs/EROs/AEROs would face appropriate action, the EC ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    EC plans booths at north Kol condos with 300+ voters

    Kolkata: The Election Commission (EC) has written to several housing societies in north Kolkata to set up booths on their premises. These will be exclusively for residents of the housing societies, an EC official said. The letter stated that ...

    23 November 2025 Times of India
    'Under immense pressure': Another BLO found dead in West Bengal; suicide note recovered

    KOLKATA: A woman working as a Booth Level Officer (BLO) in West Bengal's Nadia district was found dead at her residence on Saturday morning.The family members alleged that she had been under considerable SIR work-related stress and died by ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Will take 3 years to complete’: TMC MLA Humayun Kabir says Babri Masjid foundation stone to be laid on December 6 in West Bengal's Murshidabad; triggers row

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator has sparked controversy in West Bengal after announcing that a foundation stone for a “Babri Masjid” would be laid in Murshidabad district on 6 December. TMC MLA Humayun Kabir said the event would take ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Justice Vikramjit Sen confers Derozio Awards 2025 at ASISC Conference in Chandigarh

    Chandigarh: Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has announced Derozio Award for honouring four educators for their leadership, service, and innovation in education.Justice Vikramjit Sen former Supreme Court Judge and Chief Justice of Karnataka High Court conferred the award at ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Quake risk: Kolkata-Mymensingh belt part of Eocene Hinge Zone

    Kolkata: The 5.7-magnitude earthquake near Dhaka on Friday morning that jolted Kolkata and sent people rushing out of homes and offices may just be a dress rehearsal. Geologists and seismologists have warned of a build-up of tectonic stress in ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    KMC’s ‘wake-up song’ for waste collection from Dec

    Kolkata: Mayor Firhad Hakim on Friday introduced a special awareness drive with song to appeal citizens to start segregating waste at home and hand over the segregated waste to the waste collectors. Set to the tune of Usha Uthup's ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Quake in B’desh brings Kolkata out on streets

    Kolkata: Tremors from a 5.5 magnitude earthquake on Friday morning sent people across Kolkata rushing out of buildings, interrupting their usual weekday rhythmFrom employees logging into their systems to students settling into morning classes, from traders lifting shutters to ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Trans activist pedals 1,500 km to Kol with appeal for peace in Manipur

    Kolkata: The gunshots have fallen silent in the strife-torn Manipur for now, giving a deceptive perception of normalcy in the border state. Even as the limelight has shifted from ethnic conflict, residents continue to suffer in silence for over ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    From food to fashion, Kol named India’s best vegan-friendly city by animal rights group

    Kolkata: An animal rights group has named Kolkata as India's most vegan-friendly city of 2025. Mayor Firhad Hakim, who is also the minister-in-charge of urban development and municipal affairs, was presented with the award by People for the Ethical ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Too many doctors? Rs 15/patient ad for tele-health unit goes viral, sparks debate in medical circles

    Kolkata: An advertisement seeking doctors for tele-consultation for a fee of Rs 15 has sparked a debate within the medical community about the number of doctors being churned out and their distribution across cities and villages.The advertisement, issued recently ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Mamata to lead SIR protest march at Matua hub on Tue

    Kolkata: Wading into the deepening political crisis at the Matua headquarters of Thakurbari over the special intensive revision (SIR) amid rising fears of losing citizenship, CM Mamata Banerjee will lead a protest march at Thakurnagar in North 24 Parganas ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Law college counsels freshers on first day

    Kolkata: The vice-principal of the law college in south Kolkata, where a student was allegedly raped in June, welcomed the freshers following the induction held on Friday. She wrote a letter to the governing body immediately after the programme, ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Assess fitness of each kid at least once a yr: CISCE

    Kolkata: CISCE-affiliated schools would have to conduct a fitness assessment of every student at least once a year, stated an SOP issued by the council on health and physical fitness programmes. At a principals' meeting in Chandigarh, CISCE asked ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    SC order on ‘no timeline for guv assent’ to bills puts focus on 24 pending at Bengal Raj Bhavan

    Kolkata: The Supreme Court constitutional bench judgment on governors delaying assent to bills has brought focus on the Bengal assembly-Raj Bhavan standoff on 24 pending bills, the highest in any state.Late on Thursday, Raj Bhavan issued a detailed status ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Coal scam: ED searches at 50 locations in Bengal, J’khand

    Kolkata/Dhanbad/Dumka: In a major crackdown on illegal coal trade, several ED teams carried out searches in at least 50 locations across four districts of Bengal, and Dhanbad and Dumka in Jharkhand on Friday.In Bengal, ED searched the house of ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    War of words as BLO dies in road crash

    A 55-year-old booth level officer (BLO), Lalit Adhikary, was killed in an accident on Thursday at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar while returning from his SIR duty. Adhikary, who was on his bike, was fatally hit by a bus on ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘DVC will meet coal demand from captive mines in 3 years’

    Kolkata: The Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) will be able to meet its coal demand from captive mines over the next three years, increasing production to 50 million tonnes per annum, said chairman S Suresh Kumar while addressing the Merchants' ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    See-saw temp lays Kolkata low with conjunctivitis

    Kolkata: An outbreak of conjunctivitis has left thousands with red and swollen eyes. Triggered by a swelling of the conjunctiva gland of the eye, it is highly contagious and has made hundreds rush to doctors and hospital OPDs for ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    ‘Who let them in?’: TMC returns Suvendu’s ‘infiltration’ salvo

    Kolkata: Trinamool on Friday demanded a high-level probe led either by a Supreme Court or a high court judge on how Bangladeshi nationals were allowed to enter India illegally with BSF manning the borders. "Who let them in," the ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Tea Board to empanel agencies for testing imported, exported tea

    Kolkata: The Tea Board has decided to empanel agencies to test tea being imported or exported. The decision was made earlier this week after a stakeholders' meeting attended by the Indian Tea Association (ITA) and other bodies. ITA and ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Abhishek to conduct SIR workshop for BLAs on Mon

    Kolkata: Amid SIR in the state, Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee will hold a virtual review meeting-cum-workshop for booth level agents (BLAs) on Monday.Scheduled at 4pm, the meeting aims to carry out a performance audit, make a ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    HC quashes son’s case against army man

    Kolkata: Frowning on a son's involvement in a domestic dispute between his father and maternal grandfather, the Calcutta HC on Friday quashed a criminal case the son had filed against his army-man father over an alleged nasal bone injury ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    MCH students protest against anatomy head’s harassment

    Kolkata: Students of Medical College Hospital, Kolkata, staged a protest on Friday, alleging inappropriate behaviour by the head of the anatomy department towards a first-year MBBS student. The students further alleged that a female assistant professor of the same ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Survey Park boy goes missing

    Kolkata: An 11-year-old boy went missing from Sammilani Park in the Survey Park area after he went out for cycling in the locality. He was last seen near Sammilani Yuva Club on Tuesday evening. Despite extensive search efforts, he ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Agency promises medical seat for nephew, dupes Kashmir doc of 23L

    Kolkata: A doctor from Rawalpora in Srinagar was allegedly duped of Rs 23 lakhs by a fraudulent educational consultancy agency in New Town that had reportedly taken the amount from him promising MBBS admission for his nephew at a ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    HC sets aside Nigerian’s drug conviction

    Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Friday set aside the conviction of a Nigerian national, allegedly found with cocaine outside City Centre-2 in 2018, due to procedural lapses and directed the external affairs ministry to repatriate him to his country of ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Ultadanga flyover to be partially shut over weekend

    Kolkata: The EM Bypass-bound flank of the Ultadanga flyover will remain closed for two consecutive nights — from 11 pm on Saturday to 6 am on Sunday, and again from 11 pm on Sunday to 6 am on Monday ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    At over 12L, Bengal has highest no. of SHGs in India with 1.2 cr members

    Kolkata: At over 12 lakh self-help groups (SHG)s for women, Bengal now held the national record of the highest number of such organisations, comprising 1.2 crore members, said Sudip Sarkar, additional CEO of the West Bengal State Rural Livelihoods ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    JU EC nod to Harmanpreet DLitt, spl convocation likely

    Kolkata: The Jadavpur University executive council (EC) has approved the name of Harmanpreet Kaur, captain of the women's cricket team that won the World Cup, for DLitt (Honoris Causa) on Friday. If Kaur is available on Dec 24, JU ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Transport employee shot at by bike-borne goons

    Kolkata: A 52-year-old state transport employee sustained injuries after being shot at by bike-borne miscreants in an upscale neighbourhood in Baranagar on Friday. Victim Bikash Majumdar was hospitalised and discharged after treatment."I was returning after disposing of garbage around ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Over 33% SIR forms uploaded in state so far

    Kolkata: The Election Commission urged officials in Bengal to expedite the digitisation process of SIR enumeration forms and complete the exercise by the Dec-4 deadline, if not earlier. Over 33% forms were uploaded till 6 pm on Friday.Seven BLOs ...

    22 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata pays tribute to Zubeen on his birth anniversary

    The 53rd birth anniversary of the late singer Zubeen Garg was celebrated at the Assam Bhawan in Salt Lake on Tuesday. The event, organised by the Kolkata Assamese Cultural Association (KACA), saw admirers gather to pay homage to the ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Andaman & Nicobar Islands on alert: IMD issues cyclone warning with heavy rain; fishermen advised to avoid sea till Nov 23

    PORT BLAIR: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a weather alert for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands as a cyclonic circulation develops over the Bay of Bengal, expected to intensify from November 21, an official said on Thursday.Heavy ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Crackdown on coal mafia: ED raids over 40 locations in Jharkhand, West Bengal in money-laundering probe

    RANCHI/KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate launched extensive searches across more than 40 locations in Jharkhand and West Bengal on Friday as part of a coordinated investigation into money laundering involving coal mafia operations in both states.The agency conducted searches at ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    5.7-magnitude earthquake in Bangladesh triggers tremors across Kolkata, northeast

    KOLKATA: An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck near Dhaka capital of Bangladesh on Friday. The tremors were reported in Kolkata and several parts of Northeast India, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).The quake struck 13 km south-southwest of ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Kolkata weather today: Sunny skies, pleasant temperatures, lingering air quality concerns

    Kolkata, November 22, 2025, greets the day with a sunny and comfortable morning, featuring temperatures between 18.6°C and 29.6°C. Despite the clear skies, lingering pollutants from yesterday's 'poor' air quality, which registered an AQI of 198, suggest caution for ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Jeweller pushed off bus, robbed of 63L gold

    Kolkata: A 56-year-old jeweller, Itan Samanta, was robbed of gold ornaments worth Rs 63.5 lakh after being pushed off a bus in a daylight theft. The incident occurred when the victim was travelling from Sinthee to Girish Park last ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    KP to dispose 9.5kg crackers in Haldia

    Kolkata: Lalbazar has asked for 9,500 kg of banned firecrackers to be brought from the police station malkhanas to the Kolkata Police (KP) Club tent at Maidan on Saturday (Nov 22). The stock would be disposed of at Haldia. ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    34 years after conviction, HC acquits man in 41-year-old stone-pelting case

    Kolkata: As many as 34 years after being convicted by a trial court, a man accused of stone-pelting at a north Bengal tea garden, leading to the death of two men, has been acquitted by the Calcutta High Court. ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Civic body suspends Theatre Road park ‘beautification’ work

    Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has asked the agency carrying out the beautification of McPherson Square to keep the work on hold until civic officials decide on how the project can be carried forward without causing further harm to ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    First fortnight of 3-month process over, SIR problems haunt both voters and BLOs

    Kolkata: The first fortnight of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process is over but problems related to filling out enumeration forms still haunt both voters and booth level officers (BLOs).For voters who stumble over filling out enumeration forms, their ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    At Hakimpur, touts emerge to fleece fleeing Bangladeshis

    Kolkata: With hundreds of Bangladeshi nationals — living illegally in India — returning home through the Hakimpur border over the past two weeks amid SIR fear, a familiar network of touts has re-emerged, this time to extort the very ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
    Bypass, DH Road see dip in fatal accidents in 1st 10 months of ’25

    Kolkata: There was a 15% drop in fatal accidents in the city by the end of Oct this year compared to the same period last year, with the total number of fatalities decreasing from 165 to 140 in the ...

    21 November 2025 Times of India
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